Lucy Rose (writer)


Lucy Rose is an English writer and filmmaker. She began her career making short films. Her debut novel The Lamb became a Sunday Times bestseller.
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Early life and education

Rose was born in Leeds to an old working class Yorkshire family and grew up in rural Cumbria. Rose attended the William Howard School. She left home at age 15 and went on to graduate from Northumbria University with a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television Production.

Career

Film

Initially credited as Lucy Rose Wilson-Green, she wrote and directed the short film The Sycamore Gap during her final year of university as her graduating project. For The Sycamore Gap, she won the Student Award – Writing at the 2019 Royal Television Society's North East and Border Awards and was also shortlisted for Film Hub North's inaugural Filmmaker Award.
This was followed by Rose's next short films Peak, She Lives Alone, and Taste. She also founded the production company Cool Girl Pictures.
In 2024, Rose's debut feature film A Man at the Window was selected for the UK Next Wave Genre Lab, with Patrik Andersson and Jenna Bass as mentors.

Writing

Rose was a columnist for Mslexia. She founded the Working Class Writing Circle with Louis Glazzard.
In a six-way auction in June 2023, Weidenfeld & Nicolson won the rights to publish Rose's debut novel The Lamb in 2025. She had begun writing it as a "series of what I thought were unconnected flash fictions" before " that I was actually writing about the same family". Featuring cannibalism, the novel was identified as part of a trend of "femgore" literature and "feminist body horror". The Lamb debuted at #2 on The Sunday Times Best Seller list and was shortlisted for the 2025 Books Are My Bag Readers' Awards.

Personal life

As of 2025, Rose lives in South Shields. In 2022, she wrote an article on asexuality for Dread Central.

Novels

The Lamb, W&N

Select short stories and essays

  • "Fleeting Tale of Demeter" in The Selkie
  • "Damn Spot" in Analogies & Allegories Literary Magazine, Issue 2: Twisted Tales
  • "The Lady Crow" in The One That Got Away: Women of Horror, Volume 3, edited by Jill Girardi
  • in ''Of the Flesh''

Filmography

Short films

The Sycamore Gap Peak She Lives Alone
  • ''Taste''